Title
Miniature Sheet - Guinea - 2002
Type
Miniature Sheet
Coverage
Guinea
Date Issued
2002-10-30
Description
This miniature sheet features nine paintings by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) and is part of a much larger series of seventy-two stamps celebrating European painters. The stamps on this sheet reproduce the following paintings:
- The Barque of Dante
- The Massacre at Chios
- The Women of Algiers (In Their Apartment)
- Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople
- Liberty Leading the People
- [Battle]
- Christ on the Sea of Galilee
- Death of Sardanapalus
- The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan
All of the stamps have a denomination of 750 FG (750 GNF).
Extent
140 × 135 mm
Bibliographic Citation
Michel no. 3916 A–3924 A
Contributor
Eugène Delacroix
Language
French